ESX 4.1 is the Last ESX! What Do I Do Now?VMware shipped ESX Server 1.0 way back in 2001. While the word “Server” was lost over time, another bigger thing was not: the Console Operating System (a.k.a. Service Console or COS), a Linux instance that facilitated local management operations. While this administrative environment had an important role early on when centralized management with vCenter Server wasn’t as common as today, it also introduced overhead and made our platform less secure and robust as it could have been without... [Lire la suite]